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Here’s a little bit from other Squidoo Fanatics across the web:
Squidoo Directories
Glen has done a low key release of his new Squidoo/Hubpages/Gather Directory aptly aimed Squoogle. If you haven’t, stop by and take a peek.
Isle of Squid announced the winners to the January Lens Submission Contest. Congrats Kat!
�Squidoo Blogosphere
Susanne at Squidoo Magic has a good educational post with screenshots walking you through setting up a table of contents on your squidoo lens. I try to avoid tables of contents and instead just create more lenses, but there are some situations where they are very useful. Nice work Susanne.
Magicality appears to be back blogging over at Squidoo Challenge. He’s got a new post up on promoting lenses with forums and on traffic from Yahoo. Good to see you back Magicality!
Pot Pie Girl is finishing up a spectacular series on SEO for Squidoo Lenses. Part 4 was just as good as the first three, check em out.
Do you write a blog or run a website about Squidoo and have a great post or announcement to share? Let me know! I’m always looking for more new Squidoo sites to see.
-The Captain
The Captain has totally revamped his Footlocker full of Squidoo gear in the past week. Now there are more designs and more great stuff so you can show your Squidoo pride wherever you go. Or maybe just in the morning with a coffee cup…
In Fact, I’m such a Nice Guy that I’m giving away some of this great stuff 100% Free.
For the Month of January, the top three lensmasters who have the most Squidoo lenses submitted to the Isle of Squid will win some pretty cool stuff. Full Details are on the front page of the Link Directory for Lenses.
If there are any questions about the promotion, drop me a line here and I’ll answer as quick as I can.
-The Captain
The Fluffanutta has recently done a total facelift on Squid Utils. We first talked about using Squid Utils and Zimbio to quickly promote all of your lenses as RSS feeds. Now, some new features have been added, allowing you to manage your lenses even more effectively.
Combining multiple tools in one place is something the Captain is a big fan of, and I must admit, Fluff has done an admirable job doing just that.
Now, when you click ‘edit‘ on any one of your lenses from the ‘Advanced Lensmaster Dashboard‘ you are taken to a screen that has your lens framed in and a menu of great options on the left hand side:
Full Lens Info: This will return pre-formatted HTML code for your lens as well as BBC code for use in forum signatures. Your lens name, category, update time, URL, and description are all posted, allowing you to see how your lens is displayed at a glance.
Lens Maintenance: You can now edit, Publish, and view your lens from one place without losing the Squid Utils navigation.
Lens Statistics: Check up on your traffic, royalties, and other stats for each lens from here.
Lens Promotion: This is super useful, allowing you to do many things to promote your lens very quickly. This includes the Add This bookmarking tool, Lensroll.com submission, Isle of Squid Squidoo Link Directory Submission, as well as a Ping feature to notify all the major crawlers that you’ve got new content.
Search Engines: With a few quick clicks, you can double check to see that your lens is indexed in the major search engines. Extremely useful!
If you haven’t stopped by Squid Utils to check out the new management tools, you probably should. There is maximum piratey goodness for minimum price (currently free).
-The Captain
